Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Meyilower lS TO be sent 10 EDglanu
this summer to sail for the Queens cup.
Oakley Hall, formerly mayor OF New
York. has become naturalized English
subject.
William C. Crone, formerly chief of detec
tives of Baltimore city, died of paralysis on
Saturday night.
The Roman Catholic Bishop OF Savannah,
Ga, has issued an order prohibiting mar
rages after nightfall.
Robert Vint was declared the winner OF
the six days pedestrian contest in Phiadel'
pbia on Saturday night.
The Ninth Regiment of New York is rais,
ing fund for the erection of monument
on the battlefield of Gettysburg.
Landy B. Plat, senior member ofthe firm
of Platt & Co., oyster packers, Baltimore
died suddenly on Saturday, OF appopleSy.
By collision on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad near Martinsburg, w. Va, yester-
day, Daniel Shaiier, the fireman, was Killed
Rev. DR.. James H. Cuthbert, pastor of The
First Baptist Church, Washington, has re-
sigued and his resignation has been accepted
1t is reported that the land in Tyrrell
county. on the coast of North Carolina, has
risen foot since the earthquake of Janu
airy 81.
The German bark Marie, of Bremerhaven,
living in New York harbor. wns burned yes
terday. Loss on vessel and cargo about
S150000.
The House of Representatives on Satur
day passed the naval appropriation bill
with an amendment appropriating 81 $50 ,00C
for steel cruisers.
A fire in Brooklyn, N. Y, yesterday
caused SOC, 900 loss to the Ridgewood Candy
Company, and $25 900 to the building owned
by D. P. Darling.
Bishop John C. Keener, Of New Orleans,
will preside at :he Baltimore Annual Con
ference of the NJ. e. Church South at Lees
burg, which begins Wednesday.
Joseph w. Heese, who was in the Balli.
more Jail for disorderly conduct, committed
suicide yesterday morning By hanging him
self with strips torn from sheet.
Sam Osborne, ticket agent for several
steamship companies and for the Erie and
Vanderbilt roads at Toronto, Ont, has dis
appeared, leaving debts amounting, it is said
to $4,000.
The Cumberland coal companies which
ara represented in the Soft Coal Seaboard
Association on Saturday decided to advance
the miners wages from 40 to so cents per
ton from March /.
The dead body of Joseph T. Tompkinson
has been found in ravine near Iudepend-
ence. Kan. There was a bullet hole
through his body. No clue to the murderer
has been obtained
The five weeks old son of Mr.. w. NJ
Johnson, Of Washington, was chIistened
Friday night in Hiram Lodge under Mason
! ic auspices. Rev. Louis II. Schneider, u.
nior warden Of the lodge, officiated.
The Legislature OF West Virginia will
have to be reconvened because of its failure
/ to pass general appropriation bill. The
appointment of o United States Senator will
| be made before the Legislature i5 recon-
veued.
The bill making appropriation of $1,000,
| 900 for the full reimbursement of the depos
itors of the Freedman's Savings and Trust
Company, passed the Senate on Saturday,
and will, it is said, without much doubt
pass the House.
Upon basis of 5, 900 600 tons for the pro.
duct OF the Eastern Bitumiuous Coal Asso
citation, the Cumberland region, including
Elk Garden has been awarded one.third OF
this amount, and it is 10 be divided among
the companies by committee, which will
report at another meeting.
William f. English, son of William H.
English, of Indiana, when about to sail from
New York last Saturday for Europe, was
arrested, charged by Mrs. Lucy A. Case
with criminal assault and breach ofprcmise.
She sues for $25 900 damages. English de-
nouuces the charge as an attempt at black
mail.
A terrible cyclone struck Eatonton, Ga,
Yesterday afternoon between four and five
o'clock. The male academy was blown
from its foundations and wrecked, and many
residences were badly damaged. black
smith named Marshall was killed by his
shop falling on him. Several Others were
hurt, some seriously.
Virgins comes to the front again assert
ing that the earthquake that has just brok ep
cut in France and Italy he predicted, and
that on March % it will appear in a modi.
| fed form still further eastward, "but 1t is
from September 10 to October 2 this earth
quake wave and its accompanying storm
will most interest us and the people of Eu-
| rope"
| Patrick Tully. an eX-expressman, Of st.
/ Joseph, Mo, who accused his son-ln law,
upcn the advice of a fortune teller, of hav-
ing robbed him of $1,000, has since found
The money, and is deeply anxious to make
amends to his estranged daughter and her
husband. His wife died Of distress at the
family quarrel, and Tully himself is wild
with grief at his own folly.
The Forty ninth Congress will expire
next Friday, at noon, by limitation. In the
few daya left vigorous effort will be made
to dispose of the work which has accumu-
lated. The attention both of the Senate
and House will be devoted mainly to appro-
priation bills, number of which are in va
rious stages Of consideration, and some of
which have not yet been reported to the
Senate Other measures of Importance will
probably be crowded out for want of time.
Six boys were killed yesterday afternoon
on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, about two
miles above Easton, Pa. They all belonged
to Easton, and had been out hunting musk
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